Danish national Henrik Larsen jailed over child sex

A DANISH national who had sex with a 14-year-old boy in a toilet cubicle and paid a girl, also 14, for sex has been jailed for more than seven years.

Henrik Larsen, 36, met the boy through a teenage gay and bisexual chat website before they had two sexual encounters in a Melbourne toilet block, the Victorian County Court heard.

Larsen then asked the boy if he knew any girls who would be interested in a threesome, and the boy sent him a photo and details of a girl, then aged 14.

Larsen met the girl four times between 2008 and 2009 and paid her in exchange for sexual favours.

He was also found to have over 2000 child pornography images on his computer.

Police arrested Larsen after the girl told her social worker about him.

Judge Pamela Jenkins in sentencing today said Larsen took advantage of vulnerable children and exploited them for his own gratification.

“Your behaviour demonstrates a serious lack of insight … and contempt for your victims,” she said.

“You knew what you were doing was wrong.”

Larsen pleaded guilty to five counts of sexual penetration of a child under 16, two of an indecent act with a child under 16 and single counts of agreeing to use a child for sexual service, knowingly possessing child pornography and using a carriage service to send and receive child pornography.

He was jailed for seven years and nine months with a minimum term of four-and-a half years.